Cllr Mike Wakely in Hertsad of Thursday 13 January 2011 is not the first to describe the NEW BODGE as a White Elephant . PoolTooSmall stalwart from the start ,veteran Peter Woolf , last Summer estimated the oncoming disaster at £28 million , would anyone disagree ? He is pictured here ahead of the Council being humiliated at last year's Overview and Scrutiny meeting when the People, not an incompetent Project Team ,

voted for TEN LANES NOT EIGHT.

Cllr Wakely said last week "It is sad that the Council itself seems to lose professionals , yet keep managers and expensive consultants. All probably to fund the WESTMINSTER BODGE (for a same size pool) and other cabinet WHITE ELEPHANTS while the City declines in tourist, residents and business attractions. The lib dem cabinet seems to treat its other 22 lib dem councillors as voting fodder. Sadly all too often SADC Cabinet just steamroller over the Overview and Scrutiny Committe recommendations. Purely personally I wonder if the O&S Committees could replace Cabinet and their high extra personal allowances and staff expense costing residents possibly £200k to reach expensive ,flawed decisions."